The Supreme Court of the United States appears troubled by the actions of a Georgia prosecutor in disqualifying all the black
prospective jurors from the death penalty trial of a black teenager who was accused of killing an elderly white woman.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced Tuesday that he is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to reinstate
the death penalty for Tommy R. Pruitt, who was convicted in the 2001 murder of a Morgan County sheriff’s deputy.

Finding the trial court did not err or abuse its discretion during the selection of jurors for the murder trial of William
Clyde Gibson II, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed his death penalty sentence.

A split 7th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an inmate on Indiana’s death row a chance for a new trial, finding the exclusion
of a witness’s videotaped interview which could have possibly exonerated him was inadmissible as hearsay.

The Supreme Court of the United States has left in place lower court rulings ordering hearings over jurors in two North Carolina
death penalty trials who reached beyond the jury room for biblical references to help their deliberations.

A killer sentenced in Texas and awaiting execution on federal death row in Terre Haute will be allowed to proceed with efforts
to present new evidence of intellectual disability that would make him ineligible for capital punishment, a 7th Circuit Court
of Appeals en banc review determined in a 6-5 opinion.

The Supreme Court of the United States agreed Monday to hear Kansas' appeal to reinstate death sentences for two brothers
in the fatal shootings of four people and for another man convicted of killing a couple.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling
the jury he committed the crime. But she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his older brother.

A Vanderburgh County man convicted of the murders of his girlfriend’s eight- and five-year-old children after setting
fire to hishome in 2010 will remain on death row. The Indiana Supreme Court declined to reverse his convictions or revise
his sentence.

Lyon remains a passionate, unwavering opponent of capital punishment. Her career path has turned from the courtroom to education.
The dean of Valparaiso University Law School maintains a strong connection to death penalty work.

When she became pen pals with an inmate on Louisiana’s death row, Sister Helen Prejean said she did not know much about
the law or the U.S. Constitution. She was not aware of constitutional protections or how the Supreme Court of the United States
was interpreting them.

Decapitation soon could be punishable by death in Indiana. The state Senate Criminal Law Committee unanimously passed a bill
Tuesday that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for beheadings.

Indiana law experts say the mental health of a northwestern Indiana man charged with strangling two women and suspected of
killing five others could complicate the case but shouldn't prevent the state from seeking the death penalty.